Shiraki Chiyo



"Nice to meet you, I am Shiraki Chiyo, don't ask why I look like a ghost"

Chiyo Shiraki is a member of AKB0048's 152nd Understudy generation. As Idol, she is known by the nickname Chi-chan (チーちゃん) and Yoyo (よよ). Her common online name is Whiteghost, why somekind is also a nickname. She is part of Team K.

Apperance
Chiyo has white hair. Her eyes are silver-grey and she is quiet pale because she doesn't leaves her room often. Despite she doesn't do sport often, she isn't full. This is because she also eats not enough. Like all members, she has heart-lined shapes in her eyes and on her hair. Chiyo usually wears white, silver or grey clothes, despite loving colorful clothes. The reason for this style is that her hair just fits to those colors and magical girls also usually have fittable colot themes to their hair. Chiyo also commented several times that only white, silver and grey fits her, because in everything other, she looks creepy. However, she dislikes beeing outside without tons of suntan cream. Because of her apperance which is like a ghost, some fans call her Aurora.

Skills
Chiyo is a encyclopedia for Anime and Manga, esspacilly for magical girls. Though the fct that she tends to don't leave her room, she isn't sporty and has a weak body but a ver useful pitch as she has fun with dubbing Anime. In the past, she was skilled with skateboards and was able to play violin.

Personality
Towards strangers, Chiyo appears as emotionless and cold. However, this changes quickly. She is a smiling girl who often dreams. She loves anime and manga abouve everything, esspacilly magical girls. She want to be like them, a hero who saves everyone with a smile. This was also the reason why she wanted to join AKB. She is serious about practising things and tends to think very realistic and hard about various things, making her appear cold sometimes. She does also have fun with finding weak points in the personality of other people. This can turn out for her beeing arrogant.

Chiyo spends often time with watching anime which is the reason why she lacks on body straight. However, she can use her pitch very good as she has fun with dubbing anime. She also started to love video games with magical girl-like stories.

As well, Chiyo is very close to fans as she has been active as that one a long time. The fans probably know exactly much about her as the members, for example why she wants to succed Kojima Haruna, some funny quotes of her (which she usually posts on social networks) and the fact that she probably is the worst member in facto dancing which ever excisted. She is known for beeing an user in the most famous forum about AKB0048 under the name White Ghost.

History
Since her chieldhood, Chiyo loved Anime and Manga. She always dreamed of beeing a hero like them. Someday, she started to don't leave her room anymore. She started to live in her own world. Of cause, she needed to go to school but instand of visiting school by herself, she gave her mother a video camera to film the lessons. This stayed like this since her first school year.

Auddition
As her parents wanted her to leave her room, they needed a reason. This reason was found in AKB0048. As Chiyo loved magical girl-like heros, she also started to like AKB as they are heros who fight for love and hope. Her father gave her the idea to auddition. Chiyo did it, despite she believed she wouldn't be accepted. She was. Not knowing about the next part of the auddition, she entered it.

152nd Generation Audditions
After Hikari had announced the rules of the selection, Chiyo had met various other audditoners who all would be later part of her generation. Chiyo was listed as part of the hand-to-hand ocmbat training first, where she teamed up with Matsuto Nami and Itano Tomoko, two girls she already knew. After the training - where Chiyo's Team used to be a bit too hard - they made break. After eating at the same table as the Senbatsu members, Chiyo changed her place to other members where she talked with them about successor names and anime.

Ethymology
Shiraki (白木) can be translated to white tree

Chiyo (千代) can be translated as 1 000 years.

Together, her name can mean 1 000 years old white Tree.

Quotes

 * "I am Shiraki Chiyo, don't ask why I look like a ghost. " - Chiyo's Introduction Catchphrase
 * "I love anime three times more then food! - In Stage one 3.0 Kenkyuusei Dreams Third launch!
 * "The sun is not Naturally, it's light does not come from a screen! " - In Stage one 3.0 Kenkyuusei Dreams Third launch!

Trivia

 * Favourite New Era Song: Ie
 * She has weard the center's uniform while the Janken Taikai.
 * Her seiyuu was choosen because she voiced Fire Emblem: Awakening's Serena.
 * Her auddition song was To Say.
 * Her original planned name was Chori. This was changed because of various reasons. However, on her sign is still a butterfly.
 * She loves animals, esspacilly butterflies.
 * She writes a fanblog about AKB0048 and in the respective forum to it, her user name is WhiteGhost.
 * In her room is a promotional poster for the AKB0048 Anime and several other Anime.
 * Her favourite anime is called X - Other Self and X - Other Side.
 * The only reason why she wants to succed Kojiharu is because of her magical girl-rod.
 * She plays the character Millenia in Majisuka Gakuen 00.
 * Her father is named after Satoru Iwata who died some days after her family was created.
 * She doesn't really aims for succeding Kojima Haruna, she just likes the magical girl rod of her. It's more like a joke made by her.
 * Her Oshimen, Karen the 14th and Miorin the 9th have the reasons that Chiyo compares Miori with Magical Girls and that Karen is an anime otaku.
 * Chiyo's mobile phone has been taken away by Hikari since the Shuffle.
 * On Takahashi Minami the 7th's Succession Concert, Chiyo hacked the screen so the words "#AiForTakamina" would appear there.